What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Engineer - 5 (Linux/IaC/Gitlab) position at Akina, Inc.?
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15-4.2-031
Description for System Engineer 5:
Applies systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
Responsibility for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 process areas defined by ISO/IEC15288:
Required Skills:
Required Qualifications:
High School Diploma or GED plus nineteen (19) years of general system engineering experience.
OR
Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus fifteen (15) years of systems engineering experience.
OR
Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience.
OR
PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience.
Salary Range:
$155k-$272k (Annually)*
* *The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
www.akina-inc.com/careers
15-4.2-031
Description for System Engineer 5:
Applies systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
Responsibility for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 process areas defined by ISO/IEC15288:
- Technical Process Area - Stakeholder Requirements Definition, Requirements Analysis, Architectural Design, Implementation, Integration, Verification, Transition, Validation, Operation, Maintenance, and Disposal.
- Project Process Area - Project Planning, Project Assessment and Control, Decision Management, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Information Management, and Measurement.
- Enterprise (Organizational Project-Enabling) Process Area - Project Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Management, Lifecycle Model Management, Human Resource Management, and Quality Management.
- Agreement Process Area - Acquisition and Supply.
Required Skills:
- Strong experience with NSA/Y security requirements
- Strong experience with security architecture, solutions, and design-space exploration and trade-offs
- Familiarity with software development practices, design, and implementations.
- Assisting with leading a product-development effort to create/integrate a scalable security solution with fine grained access control for a high performance computing system used by different user types, stakeholders, and vendor support.
- Advise the Product Owner, leadership, and Team members on development, maintenance, and enhancement of complex and diverse Infrastructure as Code for large scale systems.
- Create and iteratively refine system diagrams, design documentation, and implementation documentation with Product Owners, leadership, and team members.
- Assist in breaking down technical work into stories, task, or tickets.
- Guides the creation of work items for the team backlog.
- Plans, defines, and creates detailed designs of the products.
- Defines and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision to the team.
- Collaborates with Release Architects and other Product Architects to analyze technical trade-offs and define non-functional requirements.
- Validate technology assumptions.
- Evaluate implementation strategies
- Collaborate with Product Owner and SCRUM Coach in preparation for SAFe/Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Reviews, Inspect and Adapt, and Program Increment planning events.
- Enable Continuous deliver for the team
- Coordinate with Product Owner to take on work items from the backlog.
- Leadership skills and/or experience with leading an effort
- Government or industry security practices, policies, and implementation such as STE/STN
- Linux security architecture
- Experience with security concepts pertaining to one or more of; identity and access management (IAM), access control, secrets management; and/or any security products related to these concepts
- Can adapt to and adhere to project-specific Ansible coding standards
- Communicative, collaborative, and organized
- Familiar with and able to perform full software-development lifecycle support with version control tools (Git, Git Lab)
- Works independently, as well as with a team, to ensure that all components are functioning properly
- Will stay abreast of latest industry trends in both open source and commercial metrics and monitoring solutions. Support determination of if-and-when to incorporate them into an IaC solution
- Willing to and able to learn new tools and protocols
- Cloud security
- Experience with Red Hat IDM, Keycloak, HashiCorp Vault, Delinea/Centrify
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
- Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
- Host-based Access Control (HBAC
- Single Sign On (SSO), OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- Infrastructure automation technology (i.e. Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc)
- Programming in Ansible
- Scripting or programming in Bash or Python
- Container orchestration technologies, such as Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2)
- DevSecOps best practices, system administration best practices, infrastructure networks (DNS, DHCP, PXE, NTP, etc).
- Build-test-release CI/CD pipelines and processes
Required Qualifications:
High School Diploma or GED plus nineteen (19) years of general system engineering experience.
OR
Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus fifteen (15) years of systems engineering experience.
OR
Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience.
OR
PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience.
Salary Range:
$155k-$272k (Annually)*
* *The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
www.akina-inc.com/careers
Salary : $155,000 - $272,000
